0 In Weekend Magazine: ine Students who do without * 'Critical Condition' John Logie " Interview: Leo Heatley " The List Ninety-seven years of editorial freedom VOLUME XCVII - NO. 81 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1987 COPYRIGHT 1987, THE MICHIGAN DAILY .Groups clash at $ abortion rall By SUSANNE SKUBIK and said, "if you don't open your While Nerad looked up into the Armed with slogans, signs, and eyes real soon, you're going down sky and said, "God, I know you accusations, more than 250 to the pits of Hell." love the unborn," the marchers activists from both sides of the Nerad, president of Women grew louder. abortion issue turned the Diag into Exploited by Abortion, shouted "Hey, hey, ho, ho, right-wing an ideological battleground yes- into her microphone to the chanting attacks have got to go!" they - terday. protesters, "I love violence against chanted. On the 14th anniversary of the abortion clinics!" Supporting her STUDENTS crossing campus U.S. Supreme Court's Roe vs. position with Biblical allusions, en route to noon classes were Wade decision legalizing abortion, Nerad then asked the crowd to join suprised and inconvenienced by the Ann Arbor residents both celebrated her in prayer. See PRO-CHOICE, Page 2 p ri and condemned the ruling. Waving red-painted hangers, 125 Spro-choice supporters marched in a ;.Mcircle chanting, "Right to Life, your name's a lie! You don't care iAfv .a/ yourme' aie!Roe mu1 ruin wIN !RETURN, anti- Wr abortionists from Michigan Right- By PETER EPHROSS Last night, 30 women gathered to-Life hurled accusations and and SUSANNE SKUBIK at the Federal Building just before it religious condemnations from the She was 19 when she had her closed. They sat together on the wet Dasteps of the graduate library. abortion.te floor and talked. Daily Photo by DARRIAN SMITHStanding before a 7-foot photo "Without it, I wouldn't be who T H EY had come together to of a fetus with the slogan and where I am today. I wouldn't be celebrate an anniversary, yet no one A woman holding her child protests against abortion yesterday on the diag. About 250 pro-choice and pro-life "Abortion: they're forgetting in control of my life," a woman was jubilant. Fourteen years of demonstrators gathered on the 14th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Roe vs. Wade, which someone", anti-abortionist Lorijo who asked not to be identified told a legalized abortion in the United legalized abortion' Nerad called the marchers "whores" group of women she did not know. See RIGHT, Page 3 'U' group on hunger strike for refuseniks By SCOTT BOWLES The last two sentences of Yuri Shpeizman's letter to western citizens could not have been much clearer: "You are our only hope. Please, help us!" Shpeizman and his wife, Nelli, are refuseniks. Refuseniks, Soviet citizens who have been denied permission to emigrate, often lose their jobs and housing and are harassed by the KGB because of their desire to leave the country. Nancy Rosenfeld, a board member of Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry estimated that there are close to 500,000 refuseniks in the Soviet Union - most of them are Jews. "Gorbachev appears to have a policy of openness. It's not true. It's a smokescreen," Rosenfeld said. SCHPEIZMAN'S plea for an exit visa to emigrate to Israel has fallen upon deaf ears in the Soviet Union, but not in Ann Arbor; the University's Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Organization is participating in a hunger strike in which the 50 members take turns fasting for 24 hours. In, 1984, doctors from the Oncology Department of the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem requested permission for Yuri's emigration to Israel for continuous medical care for leukemia, for which he was diagnosed in the early 1980s. But when the two were denied visas in October, 1986 they resorted to a hunger strike. Yael Rubanenko, co-chairperson of the student group, said the strike was aborted after two days because See STUDENTS, Page 5 JA .. Yuri and Nelli Shpeizman have been denied permission to leave the Soviet Union. The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry is holding a hunger strike for them. Officials By DAVID WEBSTER University officials are expecting an increase in the number of computer science majors this semester, despite a declining interest in the field nationwide. A report issued to the LSA executive committee by the electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) department indicates increased enrollment in two courses required for concentration in computer science, said EECS Prof. Bernard Galler. Galler said many students enrolled in expect incre those courses will continue studying computer sci-ence. "As they go through the pipeline I think the other (computer science) courses will show that same increase." A computer science and engineering counselor who did not want to be identified, predicted a 5 percent increase in the number of computer science majors by May. This reverse comes after a two year dip in the number of computer science concentrators at the University. Keki Irani, associate chairperson of the ase in computer majors Icers seek revenge in battle with MSU By SCOTT SHAFFER It's a situation where you can make up for a lot of losses to other teams by beating State. You can heal a lot of wounds.' -Michigan forward Bruce Macnab. The Michigan hockey team will get two chances to atone for their 9- 19 record this weekend with a home-and-home series against the national champion Michigan State Spartans (23-5-1) beginning tonight at Munn Arena in East Lansing. Both games are sold out and tonight's game will be televised on PASS-TV at 7:30. "We know State's going to play well," said Michigan head coach Red Berenson, who has a 2-8 mark against the Spartans in his three years at the Michigan helm. "If our team can put itself on the line and come up to the occasion, it could be an exciting weekend for us. The Wolverines are coming off one of their strongest efforts of the year, a 6-0 win at Ferris State last Saturday. Myles O'Connor earned co-player of the week honors for the conference while goalie Warren Sharples made 30 saves in his first career shutout. SPARTAN head coach Ron Mason, who got his 500th career See ICERS, Page 10 INSIDE computer science and engineering division, said last year's enrollment reflected an approximate 5 percent decrease from the previous year. Galler attributed the decrease in concentrators to a slump in the computer industry and the difficult prerequisites for concentration in computer science. Students are required to take three math classes, three computer science courses, and two natural science courses, earning at least a B-minus in each before they can declare a concentration in computer science. "We do that because our concentration requires and expects that level of competency," said Galler. Concentration requirements were made more demanding when the communication and computer science department and the computer engineering department merged in 1984 to form EECS. "When the requirements in-creased, enrollment leveled off right away but I think we've bottomed out," said Galler. Fili ino m ariones kill1 in protet~i MANILA, Phillipines - Marines fired M-16 assault rifles into a crowd of peasants and leftists demanding land reform yesterday, killing 12 and wounding 94 in the bloodiest street clash of Corazon Aquino's presidency. "There will be those who seek to exploit this tragic incident to derail our efforts to bring democracy," Mrs. Aquino said in an address broadcast nationwide after the slaying. Also yesterday her peace initiative toward Communist rebels all but collapsed as Communist and government negotiators suspended ktalks indefinitely because of death main gate. The bridge was the site of several bloody civilian-military confrontations during the 20-year rule of ex-President Ferdinand E. Marcos. As the front ranks of marchers approached police lines, they began chanting "Come and join! Dont' be afraid!" Marchers linked arms across Recto Street and began pushing against the front ine of brown-uniformed troops of the Integrated National Police deployed in front of the bridge. The police, behind long plastic shields, shoved the marchers back a few steps. But the protesters then surged forward. The police fell The University commemorates students' sit-in for women's safety. OPINION;PAGE 4 Local "boogie man," Mr. B., prepares to record a live album with legendary drummer J. C. Heard. ARTS, PAGE 7 AFB x : Atrn ;: i I